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Poll: Do you have to send payment reminders to most of your clients? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you have to send payment reminders to most of your clients?".
This poll was originally submitted by Emilie Moulettes
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Amal Al-Arfaj
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 07:17
Member (2005)
English to Arabic
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"Most" of my clients pay on time.
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KathyT 
Australia
Local time: 14:17
Japanese to English
...but some, yes.
And some lovely ones even remind *me* to invoice *them*
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maryblack
United States
Local time: 23:17
Member (2013)
Spanish to English
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| Yes, especially lately... | Mar 3, 2009 |
For me the crisis isn't leading to less work, but it is making clients "suddenly" not receive my bills, or claim to be paying them as we speak, while weeks later I still haven't received money. Is anyone else having this problem of clients' serious lack of liquidity? It's already caused me more than one fee from my bank for being in the red while expecting payment from clients who have previously been totally reliable.
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Unfortunately, most of my clients seem to forget to pay. Normally one e-mail is enough and I just send it to them 2 days after the due date. So, most of the time they all pay within 1 week of the due date, which isn't so bad.
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Diana Arbiser
United States
Local time: 22:17
English to Spanish
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Never, ever had to (so far). I've been lucky. Some take a little longer, but not so long as to make me do anything.
I have to add, for the record, that most of my clients are either counties or government agencies, so I guess they wouldn't avoid a payment, unless they were really dissatisfied with my job, or if the invoice should get lost (the few invoices that I still send by snail mail- most go by e-mail).
[Edited at 2009-03-03 14:41 GMT]
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Rebecca Garber
Local time: 00:17
Member (2005)
German to English
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Most of my clients pay on time.
Several of the times when clients were late, it was because someone had contracted a translation without any knowledge of their company's required paperwork for vendors, so I started sending a W9 with my invoice to new clients.
2 clients never paid, never responded to emails, etc. They went on my taxes as bad debts.
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andres-larsen
Venezuela
Local time: 00:17
Spanish to English
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| I custom tailor my receivables to my customers | Mar 3, 2009 |
I custom tailor my receivables to my customers in line with their cash flow
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Steven Capsuto
United States
Local time: 00:17
Member (2004)
Spanish to English
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Almost all of my clients pay promptly.
If late payment becomes a habit, I drop the client. I dropped three last year who were consistently a month or more late with payments.
[Edited at 2009-03-03 15:47 GMT]
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Laureana Pavon
Uruguay
Local time: 01:17
Member (2007)
English to Spanish
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MODERATOR | Only to some... | Mar 3, 2009 |
I rarely need to send a customer a reminder, but those who need reminding need to be reminded every time
In some countries I think it can even be considered standard procedure.
That said, I've always been paid in full for my work, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Laureana
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 06:17
Spanish to English
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andres-larsen wrote:
I custom tailor my receivables to my customers in line with their cash flow
Can you explain what do you mean, in plain English please? I'm not being ironic, I really don't understand.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 06:17
Spanish to English
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No, in fact, my clients sometimes have to remind me to bill them. I do a lot of revision of scientific papers, for which I charge an hourly fee. I usually bill these every 6 or 12 months, but sometimes I forget which department of institute I have to send the bills to (compounded by many of these works being on very similar subjects/areas, and the authors being transferred from one centre to another, etc.).
I do have some slow payers but this is usually because they depend on seasonal fund... See more No, in fact, my clients sometimes have to remind me to bill them. I do a lot of revision of scientific papers, for which I charge an hourly fee. I usually bill these every 6 or 12 months, but sometimes I forget which department of institute I have to send the bills to (compounded by many of these works being on very similar subjects/areas, and the authors being transferred from one centre to another, etc.).
I do have some slow payers but this is usually because they depend on seasonal funding, such as universities or grant-aided foundations.
I did dump one persistently late paying and mendacious client, basically because of their sheer lack of respect, but this is rare. ▲ Collapse
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| Yes, most of them | Mar 3, 2009 |
Most of my clients pay late. I am thinking of reducing my payment term to 15 days in order to make sure I will get paid within 30 days...
A long time ago, I was in charge of accounting for a small company. My manager used to direct me to only pay invoices when they were already late. I was also responsible for receivables there, and from the way our clients handled our invoices, I would have to say that most of our clients paid late like we did. In North America at least, it is comm... See more Most of my clients pay late. I am thinking of reducing my payment term to 15 days in order to make sure I will get paid within 30 days...
A long time ago, I was in charge of accounting for a small company. My manager used to direct me to only pay invoices when they were already late. I was also responsible for receivables there, and from the way our clients handled our invoices, I would have to say that most of our clients paid late like we did. In North America at least, it is common practice in most industries to pay late - usually, people double the payment term (invoices due in 30 days are paid after 60 days, invoices due in 10 days are paid in 20 days - only CODs are paid on time). As for why people function this way, I can only wonder... ▲ Collapse
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Max Chernov
Russian Federation
Local time: 07:17
Russian to German
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| Rarely, but... | Mar 3, 2009 |
...it's not exeption anyway. To some of my clients I have to send only total amount. To others I have to send the true reminder, because they forget to pay...
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